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Cathy and Cosma both feel that knowing specific programming languages is not essential. To quote Cathy, "you shouldn’t obsess over som...

Andrew Gelman on the difference between information visualization and statistical graphics: When I discuss the failings of Wordle (or of Nig...

I think some of the confusion that has arisen from Ed Tufte's work is that people read his book and then want to go make cool graphs of ...

fighting words

Yep, it has been scientifically proven: the accuracy of people in describing charts with 'chart junk' is no worse than for plain cha...

From Dataviz , via Revolutions . Obama recently appointed ET to the Recovery Independent Advisory Commission. Excelsior.

...of the return

Woke up yesterday at 4.30am. Decided to go to the gym. I got a new bike the other day off Craigslist, which I've been keeping inside to ...

from gridlock to green machines

At Daily EM (which got it from Core77 ), a poster from the Muenster planning department shows the amount of space required to transport th...

Jaegerman's graphics

Edward Tufte has a collection of news graphics by Megan Jaegerman here